Bugger you! There is nothing 'unreliable' about a boosted Saxo on laughing gas!
Well, so long as you don't drive it that is!
There is so many cars and so many options, but being from the Saxo stable, I would like to suggest a Saxo shell with a Honda VTEC engine sitting in the boot!
Set up correctly you could have all the fun of a Saxo (as well as that oh-so desireable image) with the added bonus of a super reliable Jap engine with rear wheel drive! There would still be
some issues with reliability, but with a professional set-up I think most of these could be overcome, and still be in budget!
There are so many cars; so many Modifications; I think overall it's down to personal preference.. In heinsight (sp?) I would like this as a fun car, but in reality, with 10k sitting in my bank account I might do something completely different!
And I'm not really on target with the 7k for the car and 3k for tuning, but it's still doable with 10k!
I think that on a more realistic note, one that just sprang to mind would be a Honda engined elise.. Again I think this is a realistic conversion, and Elise's are great track cars as they are. This set-up + boost can be pretty scary though! Mad power!
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?...454906&q=elise